Memory Making of Late 16th-Century Figures and Conflict in the 1920s and 1930s Finland
Author(s): Timo Ylimaunu; Sirpa Aalto; Paul R. Mullins
Year: 2021
Summary
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Archaeology of Urban Dissonance: Violence, Friction, and Change" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.
The young independent Finland created its national narrative through different kind of statues and memorials after the independence 1917. Some memorials and statues were unveiled to commemorate some 300 years old conflicts and historical figures, especially in the 1920s and 1930s. The so-called Club War (1596-1597), as well as the so-called Old Hate (1570-1595) war between Kingdom of Sweden and Russia, gained their own kind of memorials in the 1920s and 1930s and afterwards. We will discuss in our paper what kind of narratives were told through the memorials and how the representation has changed in time. We will suggest that these memorials represented mainly their unveiling time and that they reflect the contemporary political climate in Finland.
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Memory Making of Late 16th-Century Figures and Conflict in the 1920s and 1930s Finland. Timo Ylimaunu, Sirpa Aalto, Paul R. Mullins. 2021 ( tDAR id: 459223)
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